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April 14, 2010

G8: Red Sox 6, Twins 3

Jeremy Hermida's three-run, opposite-field double off Jesse Crain with two outs in the eighth was big hit of the day.

Marco Scutaro, Dustin Pedroia, and Victor Martinez each had two hits; FY hit his 4th dong of the young season, in the fifth, making him 8-for-his-last-13 at that point. David Ortiz smacked a line drive double to left in the ninth, ending the day on a high note after two strikeouts, a walk, and an outfield fly.

In the Boston eighth, Yook singled and one out later, Adrian Beltre ripped a double down the left field line. Drew was intentionally walked to load the bases for Hermida, who had grounded out to second twice and lined to short.

Although Lackey (6.2-7-2-4-2, 107) had four walks (three of them to Denard Span), he was never in much trouble outside of the third. Bot's control was shaky in the ninth (he franked Span and Justin Morneau), but stranded them at second and third.

Casey Kelly (2-3-1-1-2, 45) made his AA debut on Monday; the run was unearned. ... Boof Bonser allowed nine runs in two innings for Pawtucket last night; in two starts, he has allowed 16 baserunners in 6.1 innings.

Is John Tomase suggesting the Blue Jays might be an AL East threat this year?

Sitting in the car outside the doctor's office waiting for my mother at an appointment - using their wifi that is in and out... :\... It's either sit in the car with weak wifi or sit near the building and not listen to the game.

(Executive (or, the Executive Producer when he drives in runs, comes from this: I said "Beltless Trenchcoat" for "Beltre," then Laura noted that coat was called "the Executive". So he's gonna be the Exec to me.... I liked how it came about organically and with teamwork.)

Beltre, discussing Fenway's turf: “They have, like, checkered stuff, which the ball kind of goes different ways. For the most part, we’re OK, because most of the time we get the ball on the dirt. But when you’re playing in or you get slow ground balls, it’s like a snake coming at you, so you have to kind of take a guess where the ball’s going to go. I guess through the course of the season I’ll get used to it. It’s not nice. It’s not a good field. It’s a snake. The grass is a snake coming at you. It not only affects your defense, it affects your confidence. Like you get in that mind-set that, ‘Oh, where’s the ball going to go?’ So you start thinking instead of just reaction. I hope that I just get all the ground balls back on the dirt, not on the grass.’’

You shouldn't ask Allan for permission. You gotta lay down the law here: Beltre gets a nickname and ideally an adorable one.

Ask who what? No worries there.

However, my laying down the law on Allan's blog might lead to the mistaken impression that he can lay down said law on mine. He cannot. So in the interests of fairness... I will just strongly suggest that he is hereby overruled. The Mongoose!